President Tayyip Erdoğan presents a ball as he meets with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in New York, U.S., Sept. 17, 2023. (Handout via Reuters) Mon 18 September 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in New York City on Sunday, inviting him to Türkiye and asking him to establish […]
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People have been campaigning for years for reform of the juvenile justice system in Queensland [File: Jono Searle/EPA] Mon 18 September 2023: Rights defenders fear ‘irreversible harm’ to children in Queensland after changes to justice system leave more under-18s in detention. The government of Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland has stunned rights experts by […]
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Sun 17 September 2023: Travelling to the United Kingdom is set to be expensive for tourism, visiting or studying purposes. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government announced that the UK visit visas for stays less than six months will incur an additional cost of ₹1,543 (GBP 15), while UK student visas will see an increase of […]
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Sun 17 September 2023: Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful warlord of Chechnya and a faithful supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is currently hospitalized and in a severe condition, according to Ukrainian intelligence. Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence, provided this information to the Ukrainian news source Obozrevatel on Friday. According to sources, […]
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Sat 16 September 2023: Russell Brand, a British actor and comedian, stated in a story published by The Times on Saturday that he “absolutely refutes” charges made by four women, one of whom was 16 at the time, of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse. The newspaper reported that a list of charges against the […]
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Sat 16 September 2023: A soldier was sentenced to 13 years in a “maximum security” correctional colony in Russia on Friday for deserting his regiment to avoid fighting in Ukraine. Moscow has handed out harsh sanctions for deserting during mobilization, which sparked a wave of emigration last year, as well as soldiers who refused to […]
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel says the Global South is the victim of ‘abusive unequal trade’. Sat 16 September 2023: Cuba’s leader says the Global South must “change the rules of the game” of the international order after centuries of dominance by wealthy Western nations putting their own interests first. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said developing […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: The iPhone 12 will be updated in France after regulators voiced concerns about electromagnetic radiation emitted by the handsets. The announcement came on Friday, after France ordered a halt to sales of the device, which was released in 2020, on Tuesday after discovering that it produced more electromagnetic waves than allowed. […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Several weeks after the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian paramilitary Wagner group, the UK has formally designated the group as a terrorist organization. The ruling, which makes it unlawful to support or be a member of Wagner, was issued on Friday. Wagner will now be added to […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Families seeking asylum in the UK face inadequate living conditions in government-provided temporary housing, affecting their mental and physical health and access to children’s education, two leading human rights groups have said. Releasing a new 100-page report based on joint research with UK group Just Fair on Thursday, Human Rights Watch […]
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